I’ve seen Mexico’s deer. There’s zero doubt that they look incredible. Any of you guys that feed protein should be doing this. If you’re on a low budget, it’s proba the most beneficial thing you can do

Iíve seen Mexicoís deer. Thereís zero doubt that they look incredible. Any of you guys that feed protein should be doing this. If youíre on a low budget, itís proba the most beneficial thing you can do

You're gonna have to come back.... apparently you left around 1.3 million javalinas behind still...

Just called L&E, quoted me $22.90/bag for the 17% protein with dewormer. Mexico is this what you are feeding? Where are you getting it for $17?

We get it from a distributor in Mexico. He buys in a huge bulk quantity. I believe we are paying closer to 19 a bag now. It's expensive but worth it, and in all reality you really don't need that much.

We feed about a ton a year of medicated not including the regular 20 percent we feed.

I spoke to my vet about wormer and medicated feed, he said it might be better to treat the water source with a product and cheaper as well. Thoughts? I am going to bring him stool samples from deer in my area of the lease to see if they do in fact have worms.

Does anyone on here feed medicated protein? We medicate our herd twice a year spring/fall with LnE medicated. Kills all internal and external parasites and during the summer they don't get that drab heat spot look.
Last year all our deer harvested except one didn't have a tick on them. We are low fence so that's not a surprise that we had one that possibly didn't eat our feed.
Seems like it has made a huge difference on live weight, and obviously horn growth since the bucks are spending their energy growing horns and not feeding ticks....
If you're feeding it have you noticed a difference in your herd?

If you don't mind me asking, isn't that a little dangerous for human consumption?

I used to use the dewormer/medicated feed. I did not see a huge difference.
One of the cons to it is the deer become accustomed to having this in there diet and it might compromise there immunity to natural disease. Deer have built up a natural immunity to various diseases and parasites and in the long run they may loose that ability if you continue to feed it to natural free ranging deer. I am not a biologist, just repeating what I have heard.

The active ingredient is Fenbendazole. It can't do anything to ticks as far as I know. Maybe someone with more knowledge on this can chime in. I think there are some vets on TBH.
I raise exotics and us the M-G zoo wormer every spring. Main ingredient on it is Fenbendazole as well. I recently bought 2 dybowski sika males and they came in a little thin looking (I wasn't there when they turned them loose) so we darted them and I had the vet check them for worms. It came back negative but they did have a lot of ticks on them so he gave them something for the ticks. I'll try to find out what that is.
I never had a worm test done on any of my other deer. The M-G wormer is only a few dollars more than my normal feed so I think it is money well spent.

A very interesting discussion you started.
I'm interested in how you do it on free range deer. I never thought about it on our lease but I am interested.
They recommend for the deer to eat so much per day per body weight for 3 days straight. With my exotics that is pretty easy to do. Not sure how easy that is on free range deer.
I'm also not sure how common worms are in free range deer.

A very interesting discussion you started.
I'm interested in how you do it on free range deer. I never thought about it on our lease but I am interested.
They recommend for the deer to eat so much per day per body weight for 3 days straight. With my exotics that is pretty easy to do. Not sure how easy that is on free range deer.
I'm also not sure how common worms are in free range deer.

The same way you would do it in any pasture. Obviously you will not medicate all your deer in a free range environment, as stated in my original post we did have a deer with ticks, only one.
In my opinion that was well enough for us to continue to feed and absorb the cost of medicated feed, that along with the other observations I've made in previous post.

I'll also add LnE mixes a special blend of feed for Mexico. I won't go into the exact active ingredients but obviously it's not regulated like anything sold in the U.S.

The same way you would do it in any pasture. Obviously you will not medicate all your deer in a free range environment, as stated in my original post we did have a deer with ticks, only one.
In my opinion that was well enough for us to continue to feed and absorb the cost of medicated feed, that along with the other observations I've made in previous post.

I'll also add LnE mixes a special blend of feed for Mexico. I won't go into the exact active ingredients but obviously it's not regulated like anything sold in the U.S.

I know you said you wouldnít go into exact active ingredients. But do you know how much better it is and what differences there are? Something that would kill the ticks thatís not in the US blend?

interesting . L and E tried to get me to feed it twice a year last year and i was set to do it. when i discussed with my biologist he was not happy. He also said it was illegal unless it was pen raised farm deer. He stated was not good for natural immunity of the herd. I am on MLD 3 and followed his advice. I am sure in mexico it doesn't matter at all but wonder if it is really legit for native deer in south texas. seems odd ....

interesting . L and E tried to get me to feed it twice a year last year and i was set to do it. when i discussed with my biologist he was not happy. He also said it was illegal unless it was pen raised farm deer. He stated was not good for natural immunity of the herd. I am on MLD 3 and followed his advice. I am sure in mexico it doesn't matter at all but wonder if it is really legit for native deer in south texas. seems odd ....

Gotcha. We have a very well know biologist that actually suggested we feed it 3 times a year instead of 2. We stuck with 2 for price reasons.

Gotcha. We have a very well know biologist that actually suggested we feed it 3 times a year instead of 2. We stuck with 2 for price reasons.

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We feed it twice a year dosed in our protein south of the border as well. Deer have all been in great shape and we havenít noticed any significant parasites on them at all. We feel anything we can do to help the health of our herd will allow them to better express their genetic poetential, buck or doe.

Interesting thread and good info. This was the second year I fed protein (actually dairy pellets) at my place in OK, and I’ve been wanting to find some feed that has wormer in it. My Sunday school teacher is a vet, and he suggested doing it.
I’m going to check with L&E and see where I can buy a ton or two.

interesting . L and E tried to get me to feed it twice a year last year and i was set to do it. when i discussed with my biologist he was not happy. He also said it was illegal unless it was pen raised farm deer. He stated was not good for natural immunity of the herd. I am on MLD 3 and followed his advice. I am sure in mexico it doesn't matter at all but wonder if it is really legit for native deer in south texas. seems odd ....

I think what is being referenced as illegal in the U.S is adding CTC { chlortetracycline } to wild deer feed. While it has been fed to practically every cow, pig goat, chicken...since the 1950's grown for human consumption a couple years ago it was made illegal for wild deer feed. To add it to deer feed now it requires a vet prescription .Not a problem in Mexico. It is still legal to add ivermectin to wild deer feed .

I work for Record Rack deer feeds. Safeguard is the only dewormer feed companies can use in a feed mill. Very safe and canít harm by overfeeding but can get costly. Our recommended rate can add about $200 per ton to add to your ration. Thatís why we offer a maintenance ration thatís 14% protein and more cost effective around $14 retail per bag. Feeding rate is 12lbs per head so you can fill feeders with what you need depending on herd size then go back to regular feed once theyíre empty again.

Most ranches deworm twice a year in fall after first freeze and spring. Would recommend getting fecal sample to vet to make sure you have parasites before spending extra money if you have the time.

My feed store quoted me $1042/ton and it only treats 18 head? That sound right to y’all?

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Doesn't sound right? We pay about 750 a ton for LnE medicated. It sounds like a bunch, but we only feed a little over 1 ton of medicated a year. We have 11 feed stations, and put 2/3 sacks in each feeder in the spring and fall.
In all honesty I have no clue how many deer we're actually medicating but remember it only takes 2 or 3 mouthfulls to medicate a deer.
In all the deer we have harvested in the last 2 years we've only had one that had parasites present. Pretty good results in my opinion.